ILO-VSS co-organized training on customer care targeting Viet Nam’s health and social insurance members
Under the framework of ILO-Luxembourg project “Support to the extension of social health protection in Southeast Asia”, the ILO and Viet Nam Social Security (VSS) co-organized a three-day training on customer care skills for 25 VSS staff working on customer care. The...
Accelerating broad and equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccine in Ethiopia
In an effort to accelerate fair and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, the World Bank is providing additional financing to the Ethiopia COVID-19 Emergency Response Project in the form of a grant totaling $207 million to finance vaccine acquisition and deployment...
The Government of Viet Nam specifies how Covid-19 related consultations and tests will be financed by the Health Insurance
https://vss.gov.vn/english/news/Pages/vietnam-social-security.aspx?ItemID=9913&CateID=198
Social assistance in Ethiopia during COVID-19
World Bank’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys on COVID-19, 2020 (HFPS) and the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey, 2018-19 (ESS) are used to assess whether families got help during the pandemic, how quickly they got it, and whether government assistance benefited the...
New report on implementing minimum service standards now available in documents section
Indonesia has increased health insurance coverage to 83 % of the total population. Due to the rise of noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevalence, public health spending may need to shift the focus to primary health care. Indonesia has released several iterations of its...
Partnership collaboration in the area of health financing and social health protection for UHC
1 The high-level policy goal of universal health coverage and the rights-based social health protection frameworkThe COVID-19 pandemic has increased the visibility of the importance of a social safety net in all countries, including for health. This increased...
Zambia gets additional financial support of $24 Million to procure and equitably distribute COVID-19 Vaccines
The government of Zambia has been approved to get additional financing of $24 million to acquire and equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccines. Of the total amount, $14 million is credit provided by the International Development Association (IDA), and $10 million is...
Development research project for health policies in Burkina Faso
The overall development objective of this PRD is to help improve public health policies in Burkina Faso. Its specific aim is to strengthen the institutionalization of quality evaluation practice in the healthcare sector. To this end, the project's main research...
Mali: Reproductive health and family planning budgeting workshop
The National Observatory for the Demographic Dividend (ONDD) and its technical and financial partners held a two-day workshop on budgeting for reproductive health and family planning. The aim of this meeting is to make the integration of RH/FP into national...
Fighting HIV/AIDS in Cameroon: A plea for a reduction in household costs
The Director of Onusida in Cameroon deplores the fact that 70% of payments for HIV/AIDS-related services are still borne by households. This poses a real problem of access to care for vulnerable people. However, the elimination of fees for HIV-AIDS services, which had...
The complex quest for coordinated health financing in Cambodia
A German-supported coordination mechanism, and one key advisor in particular, indicate a possible way forward with the big ‘4Gs’. ‘Donor harmonisation depends a lot on individuals’, mused a somewhat disenchanted Bart Jacobs, long-time social health...
Leading the Charge: Insight into Zambia’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocacy in Universal Health Coverage Financing Reforms
Access to affordable family planning is an essential component of universal health coverage (UHC) as it is one of the most effective interventions that have shown to reduce maternal and under- mortality rates. For Zambia, to include Family Planning (FP) in the...
CONGO ECONOMY/FINANCE LAW 2021: A NEW TAX INSTITUTED ON UNIVERSAL HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE
Congo has instituted Universal Health Insurance Coverage (CAMU) in the 2021 Finance Act. This new tax is one of the new elements instituted in this law, the popularization campaign for which was launched on Monday February 22, 2021 in Brazzaville. Initiated by...
DRC: access to healthcare a challenge for the elderly
For Gilbert Tshibangu, a teacher at the Institut Supérieur du Commerce in Kinshasa, this is the first time that an elected President of the DRC has expressed his willingness to offer his people universal health coverage. On the initiative of President Félix...
Burkina Faso: Health insurance fund encouraged to do better
On June 24, 2021, 19 state-owned companies presented their financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020, including Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie Universelle (CNAMU). The Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie universelle (CNAMU) has submitted its...